apcsp u7 vocab

a variable in a function definition. Used as a placeholder for values that will be passed through the function: Parameter

the value passed to the parameter: argument

used to return the flow of control to the point where the procedure (also known as a function) was called and to return the value of expression: return

a process and allows a procedure to be used only knowing what it does, not how it does it. Procedural abstraction allows a solution to a large problem to be based on the solution of smaller subproblems. This is accomplished by creating procedures to solve each of the subproblems. 

Library: a group of functions (procedures) that may be used in creating new programs

API: Application Program Interface - specifications for how functions in a library behave and can be used

Modularity: the subdivision of a computer program into separate subprograms